"Storytelling does not begin with inventing, it begins with listening.”&

“I’m all for the diffusion of what I’ve written,” Berger says, “but my own story doesn’t interest me.” He pauses. “There’s a risk of egocentricity. And to storytellers, egocentricity is boring.”- John Berger here

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"Opposition is seen as confrontation, confrontation as aggression, aggression as a will to suppress." - Michael Silverblatt